Garment provided with a neckband.



APPLICATION FILED FEB. ll. l9 l8- Patented Apr. 8,1919.

WITNESSES,-

. ATTORWiY ANNA a. enrnrwrc z; or cnrceeo, 'rnrrnors.

Application filed February 11, 1915. Serial No. 216,587.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that-I, ANNA J. GRYNIWCZ, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garments Provided with Neckbands, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification,

. This invention relates to improvements in garments provided" with neck bands, partlcularly designed for protecting the outer garments of a woman while engaged iii kitchen and other housekeeping work, and

articularly in the nature of aprons which or one reason or another it is desirable to have the neck portions cut somewhat low, and which, as heretofore constructed, are subject to the objection that when bendinw the neck or body, as is frequently required in the performance of housekeeping duties, pulls and bulges the neck band to a degree distorting and making an uncomfortable fit of the apron, and, not infrequently exposing the body of the'wearer below the neck band of the garment to an objectionable extent.

The prime object of my invention, broadly stated, is to provide a means for compelling the neck portion of a garment,

' and particularly an apron having a comparatively low-neck band, in smooth and close contact at its edges with the flesh of the wearer, and which will be thus maintained in the presence of any bending of the neck or body that may occur while being Worn. 4

Another object of my invention is to have the neck portion of a garment or apron, which is somewhat angular and pointed in form, provided with a reinforcement, not only maintaining the desired shape and lay of the neck portion against the flesh of the wearer, and against pulling from the band and the body, but which is so constructed that it shall be of a maximum strength in the corners for the neck band, and so materially and substantially prevent such corners from being torn or stretched from laundrying, and particularly from the strains to which the neck bands of all aprons are subject While being worn.

A further object of my invention is to reinforce the neck portion of an apron, the edge of which neck portion extends substantially below the base of the neck of the wearer, by means providing for a closable Specification 01 Letters Patent.

raovmnn WITH A NECKB.

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opening, located with reference to the neck band reinforcement,forslipping it over the head of the wearer, and so that when said opening is fastened in'its closed position, it cannot exert any strain tending to distort the smooth ends of the neck band, or the fitting of the apron below. the neck band.

-With these ends in view my invention finds embodiment in certain features of novelty in the construction, combination, and arrangement of parts by which said objects and certain other objects are attained, all

as hereinafter described, with reference to v the accompanying drawing, and more particularly pointed out in the claims.

In said drawing:

Figure 1 illustrates the position of an apron in which my invention finds its embodiment, and to somevextent its construction, in its operative position, upon the figure of the wearer;

Fig. 2 is a detailed plan view of the neck portionthereof, and the closable opening therefor, in its operative position;

Fig; 3 is a similar View, with the closure for the neck band in an open position;

Fig. 4 is an enlarged front view detailed, for more clearly showing the, construction of the neck band in its relation to and connection with .the closable opening therefor, and

Fig. 5 is a section taken on the line 55 of Fig. 4a.

Similar characters of reference indicate the same parts in the several figures of the drawing.

My invention finds its embodiment in an apron provided with a closed skirt portion of any suitable or desired length, but preferably below the over-skirt of the wearer, indicated by dotted lines 7 and is formed continuous with the waist portion 8, but may be formed separately, and stitched or otherwise secured thereto, and is preferably provided at the waist portion with a belt 9, either tight or loose, as may be desired, the waist having sleeves 1010, of any suitable length, which, however, for convenience in working are. loose and short, as indicated by the drawings.

In carrying out my invention, the fabric of the waist is provided with an angular opening which is indicated in the drawing as square, two of the corners of which are located on lines respectively at thecenter of the back and front of the wearer, with the other two corners on a line extending across the shoulders of the wearer, and preferably on a line centrally therethrough, that is to say obliquely to the general line of the waist and garment as may be.

Mounted upon the fabric surrounding the neck opening thus formed and located in the Waist, is a reinforcing band in the nature of a collar 11, permanently and smoothly stitched at its inner edges to the edge of the neck opening of the Waist, as indicated at 12, and at its outer edges to the adjacent edges of the Waist, as indicated at 13, which is formed from a single piece of fabric of suitable dimensions, from which is severed a piece leaving a neck opening 14, correspond ing in form and dimensions with the neck opening in the fabric of the waist, and thereby forming the band 11, consisting of a continuous piece, first placed in its operative position around the neck opening of the fabric, and then stitched intact to the fabric of the waist, as above described, while maintaining the band and the adjacent fabric of the waist in contact with each other in the absence of puckerin g.

The surfaces then contacting with eachf other are in a perfectly smoothed out condition, preferably stitching the inner edge in advance of the stitching of the outer edge of the band to the fabric, but it would not be' a substantial departure from any invention to, if desired, form tucks o' tplaits in the fabric of the waist, provided they terminate at or substantially at the outer edges of the reinforcing band.

Having secured the band, and at the same time reinforced the. neck portion of the apron, the band 11 with the fabric opposed thereto, is then severed at a point forward of the angular corner 15 of the neck opening, along a line slightly removed on the corner 15 of the band, as iiidi 'ated in Figs. 2 and 4; that is to say, along a line see Fig. 3, passing from about thepoint 16 to the point 17, followed by a slipping of the body portion of the waist thence downwardly to about the waist line for forming (see Fig. 3) a head and shoulder opening 18, the edges of which are. respectively, reinforced by strips 19 and 20. terminating at the free ends of the band 11, to which they are stitched, and also to the fabric in such a manner as to providi :1 binding reinforcing the-edges of the fabric :it both sides'of the opening, there being also stitched to the strip it) and to the. end of the band ll :id jacciit thereto. a rectangular piece of fabric, 20", of sullicicnt dimensions to provide a foundation for the attachment of'onc'oi' .liltil'u buttons 2L or other fastening, adapted apiece of fabric a continuous neck vided at intervals of their length, With one or more buttons 23 and button holes 24 therefor, as indicated in Figs. 2 and 3.

The strip 20 (see Fig. 5) is preferably folded. over the fabric of the waist portion 8 and the band 11, and stitched through to form a binding, finishing the cut edges of the neck opening.

In practice, the band 11 is preferably cut on the diagonal from the fabric from which it is formed, so that when secured in its operative position its weave will run with the weave of the fabric of the waist, and thereby stretch or shrink with the fabric of the waistand skirt, as may be, and with the same force, and in the same direction, and especially following the stretching or shrinking of the apron from laundrying, and which otherwise may tend to drawand wrinkle theseams securing the band ll'to the fabric of the waist and to the reinforcements for the head and shoulder opening 18, formed therein.

In order to prevent strains tending to distort or tear the corners at the inner edges of the band 11, small reinforcing strips 25. in Fig. 2,,are interposed between the band 11 and the abric of the waist, and secured between the exposed surface of the band, and stitched through the inturned finished edges of the band to the neck portion of the fabric of the waist. which reinforcing cor- 'the waist and the band 11, to prevent the stretching orshrinking of fabric of the one in a direction contrary to the other.

In conclusion it is to be observed that when an apron is constructed, as herein described, that suspended as it is substantially from the neck of the wearer, by reason of the form and construction of the neck band; its tendency is to drape as perfectly as may lie. and thcreb prevent fullness at anvpoiiit in the neck band from any change in the position of the wearer. necessarily followlug the use of the apron. while engaged in various housekeeping duties.

Having described my invention. what I claim and desire to secure bv Letters Patent is: I

1. The herein described method of conslructing and applying neck bands to garments, the same consisting in sevciiiig from hand and then pci'niiinentlv securing the band to 'nients. the same consisting in forming a conlinuousncck hand. then placing said band flat upon the fabric of the garment for surthe fabric of the ghriiicnt surrounding the band to the fabric of the garment surrounding the neck opening therefor with the opposing surfaces of said fabric and band in a smoothed-out condition.

4:. The herein described method of constructing and applying neck bands to garments, the same consisting in severing on the bias from a pieceof fabric a continuous neck band, 'and then permanently securing the band to fabric of the arment surrounding the neck opening therefor, with the weave of the band extending at an angle to that of.

the fabric surrounding the neck opening.

5. The herein described method of con structing and applying'neck bands to garments, the same consisting in first severing a continuous neck band from a piece of fabric in the form of a hollow square, then placing the band fiat upon the fabric of the garment with the opposing diagonal corners of the neck band located on a line extending along the shoudeus and back and front ,of the garment.

6. The h nein described method of constructing and applying neck bands to garments, the same consisting in first forming a continuous neck hand, then placing said band flat upon the fabric surrounding the neck opening for the garment with the diagonal opposite corners of said band respectively located back and front and along the shoulders of the garment, then stitching the band permanently to said fabric and thereafter severing the band to provide a head opening therethrough.

7. The herein described method of constructing and applying neck bands to garments, the same consisting in first providing a continuous neck hand in the form of a hollow square, then facing the band flat upon the fabric of the garment for surrounding the neck opening and with the diagonal 0pposite corners of the band. respectively located along the shoulders and back and front of the garment and thereafter severing the neck band and the fabric opposed thereto along a line adjacent to but removed from one of the shoulder corners thereof to form a head opening thercthrough.

8. The herein described method of constructing and applying neck bands to garments, the same consisting in first forming a continuous neck hand, then placing said band fiat upon the fabric of the garment surrounding the neck opening and securing it to said fabric, then severing said band and the fabric of the garment well toward the Waist line thereof, for forming a head and shoulder opening thcrethrough, and finally finishing the severed edges substantially as herein described.

9. A new article of manufacture consisting of a garment provided with a square neck opening, a neck band for and secured to the fabric surroumling said opening, the di agonal opposite corners of which neck opening and band are respectively located on a line passing through the shoulder of and the back and front of the garment.

10. A. new article of manufacture consisting of a garment provided with a square neck opening and with a neck band secured thereto surrounding said opening, which said neck band the fabric of the garment op posed thereto is severed at a single point transversely of the neck band along a line substantially removed from a. corner thereof.

11. A new article of manufacture consisting of a garment provided with a square neck opening, a neck band stitched to the fabric of the garment surrounding said opening, which said neck band and fabric are severed along a line passing through the neck band and are from one of the corners thereof and extending into the fabric of the garment well toward the waist line thereof.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and ailixed my seal this 2nd day of February A. D. 1918.

ANNA J. GRYNUVTCZ. Witnesses:

A. F. MACLOANE, J N0. G. ELLro'rr. 

